9-15 July 2013 | ComputerWeekly.com HOME NEWS THE 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN UK IT BP’S MOVE TO A HYBRID CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE EDITOr’S COMMENT OPINION BUYER’S GUIDE TO HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ThE BEST WAY TO PRESENT BIG DATA TO THE CONSUMER The most STRATEGY FOR OUTSOURCIng IT SERVICES influential DOWNTIME women in IT MEET 25 INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN WHO HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS IN A MALE-DOMINATED INDUSTRY computerweekly.com 9-15 July 2013 1 THE WEEK IN IT HOME Government & public sector Networking hardware HMRC gets £200m digital investment Computer genius Doug Engelbart NEWS with hopes of saving £51m a year transferred to archive server, aged 88 HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) digital The inventor of the computer mouse, THE 25 MOST service will receive £200m government Doug Engelbart, has died aged 88. His INFLUENTIAL investment in a move expected to save first breakthrough in IT came in December WOMEN IN UK IT £51m a year on administrative costs. The 1968, when he and a group of research- investment will enable two million people ers from the Stanford Research Institute BP’S MOVE TO to carry out transactions online by 2015- showed how users could each have their A HYBRID CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE 16, such as self-serving their repayments, own computer workstation connected viewing tax codes, updating personal to a shared computer system, with each details online and reporting additional having a private file space and groups of EDITOr’S sources of income, said HMRC. users sharing a community space. COMMENT Hackers & cyber crime prevention Innovation, research & development OPINION Seventy cyber espionage campaigns Mid-sized UK IT companies lead hit the UK every month, says GCHQ Europe in R&D growth investment BUYER’S GUIDE TO UK intelligence agency GCHQ director Medium-sized IT companies in the UK HUMAN RESOURCES Iain Lobban has confirmed that the gov- will grow faster than the average this year, MANAGEMENT ernment is targeted by about 70 sophis- and plan to increase spending on research ticated cyber espionage campaigns every and development (R&D) by more than ThE BEST WAY TO month. Business secrets are stolen “on any other sector, according to research. PRESENT BIG DATA an industrial scale” and foreign hackers The GE Capital report surveyed mid-sized TO THE CONSUMER have penetrated some firms for up to two companies across all sectors in Europe, years, he told the BBC. including 91 UK IT companies. STRATEGY FOR OUTSOURCIng IT SERVICES Government & public sector Government & public sector OFT investigates public sector IT NHS IT embraces open source outsourcing competitiveness Open source licensing agreements will DOWNTIME The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has be a key feature in NHS IT, according to called on suppliers and buyers of IT ser- a report published last vices in the public sector to provide it with week. NHS England said access the latest it news via rss feed information about their experiences, as it it aimed to “develop a investigates the market for outsourcing vibrant market of prod- in government. The OFT wants to ensure ucts and solutions” for organisations taxpayers get the most for their money across the UK, all made available under an with rigorous standards of competition. open source licence model. n LEEDS GETS WI-FI WITH PHONE BOXES Phone boxes across Leeds are set to be turned into Wi-Fi hot- spots by local telecoms company Aql. The Leodis project – an anagram of the Leeds Electronic Ordnance and Digital Information System and the old English name for the city – will see the firm revamp the iconic British installations by painting them blue and souping them up with wireless connectivity for passers-by to take advantage of. The phone boxes will house Aql’s networking equipment, pow- ered by solar energy. As well as being environmentally friendly, the installation will cause no disruption to residents, as no roads will need to be dug up for power or cabling. computerweekly.com 9-15 July 2013 2 THE WEEK IN IT HOME Strategy Transport & travel industry Gartner forecasts return to IT Bus transport operator Arriva puts its NEWS investment as economy improves e-commerce platform on private cloud Global IT spending is set to reach $3.7tn UK bus operator Arriva has launched an THE 25 MOST by 2014 as the economy improves, e-commerce platform hosted on a pri- INFLUENTIAL according to Gartner’s Worldwide IT vate cloud service. The WOMEN IN UK IT Spending Forecast. Spending on mobile platform is intended to access the latest it news via rss feed devices is set to increase by 6.5% in 2014 give customers up-to- BP’S MOVE TO to $740bn, compared to $695bn in 2013. the-minute service infor- A HYBRID CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE Gartner predicted expanded enterprise mation and route details on their mobile spending on e-commerce, social and devices and a process to improve their mobile as organisations boost customer ticket-buying experience, accessed by EDITOr’S relationship systems. iPhone, Android devices and BlackBerrys. COMMENT Risk management Web software OPINION Indonesian student wins global Open Championship prepares website Kaspersky Lab security competition for 10,000 page requests a second BUYER’S GUIDE TO An entry from Indonesia’s Bandung The organisers of golf’s Open HUMAN RESOURCES Institute of Technology has won the Championship have configured the web- MANAGEMENT Kaspersky Lab Cyber Security for the Next site in anticipation of 10,000 webpage Generation 2013 international student requests a second from five million site ThE BEST WAY TO conference competition. The winning pro- users during the four-day golf tourna- PRESENT BIG DATA ject – an application using a mobile near- ment. Organisers the R&A outsources the TO THE CONSUMER field communications inspection device support and development of the website – was submitted by Firman Azhari. to IT services supplier Endava. STRATEGY FOR OUTSOURCIng IT SERVICES Mobile networks Government & public sector EE confirms July date for doubling 4G Government commits an extra £250m speeds in 12 cities across the UK to superfast broadband budget DOWNTIME Mobile operator EE has confirmed it will The government has committed an addi- double the speed of its 4G network in 12 tional £250m of superfast broadband cities from 4 July 2013 as it tries to attract spend to increase coverage to 95% of the new customers. The first locations for the UK by 2017. The announcement builds improved connectivity could get speeds on plans to provide nearly 90% of homes as high as 150Mbps, although some com- with access to fixed, superfast broadband mentators say an average of between by 2015. The government also announced 24Mbps and 30Mbps is more realistic. a further auction of 4G spectrum. n SOFTWARE USE IN ACCOUNTANCY FIRMS Of 1,603 accountancy firms: Does your practice use an integrated suite of accountancy software? 10.36% Sage 17.22% Iris 18.47% CCH Thomson Reuters Digita 14.97% No, plans to implement 7.3% a solution in 12 months No, works in Excel, Outlook or similar 3.81% 27.89% Other Source: Thomson Reuters, 2013 computerweekly.com 9-15 July 2013 3 AWARDS HOME The 25 most influential women in IT NEWS Computer Weekly’s search for the most influential women in UK IT in 2013 is THE 25 MOST over. Those who made the grade are profiled here. Kayleigh Bateman reports INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN UK IT he aim of compiling an annual list of Denise McDonagh, CTO, Home BP’S MOVE TO the top 25 most influential women in 2Office; former director of the A HYBRID CLOUD UK IT is to focus on the role of women government’s G-Cloud programme INFRASTRUCTURE T in IT, recognise the most influential role mod- Denise McDonagh took up the els and discuss the vital part that female IT position of Home Office CTO EDITOr’S leaders will take in making a difference to the on 1 June, having previously been COMMENT future of the UK’s high-tech economy. programme director for the The winners – selected by a judging panel government’s cloud computing OPINION of employers and IT leaders from across the scheme, G-Cloud. McDonagh represents a industry and by Computer Weekly’s read- new breed of leaders, enabling innovation BUYER’S GUIDE TO ers – were announced at a special event in and focusing on building high-performing HUMAN RESOURCES London last week. teams of predominantly civil servant IT MANAGEMENT The 25 inspirational women who made it professionals. on to the 2013 list represent the role models ThE BEST WAY TO that will be so important to the future diver- Catherine Doran, CIO, Royal PRESENT BIG DATA sity and success of the tech community. Mail Group TO THE CONSUMER 3 The third Royal Mail CIO in less Joanna Shields, CEO and Chair of than 18 months, Catherine Doran STRATEGY FOR 1Tech City Investment Organisation inherited a controversial IT transfor- OUTSOURCIng IT SERVICES Joanna Shields is an American- mation programme, as well as the British executive, currently splitting of the Post Office as part of serving as CEO and chair of Tech the reorganisation of the UK postal service. She DOWNTIME City Investment Organisation is responsible for devising and delivering the IT and as the UK government’s strategy to transform the technology estate. business ambassador for digital industries. Previously, she led a company-wide transfor- Prior to this she was vice-president and mation programme at Network Rail. general manager of Facebook in Europe. Before Facebook, she was president of Wendy Hall, professor of people networks at AOL, a position she 4computer science, University of assumed after the acquisition of Bebo by Southampton; founder of Web Science AOL.